The Enhancements Process

IUG

 

 

The Innovative Users Group (IUG) plays a vital role in the decision making process to provide enhancements to the Sierra and Millennium systems. Through this cooperative process, IUG members make suggestions, vote for system enhancements, and are afforded a unified voice for improving the system functionality. Participation in the enhancements process is one of the greatest benefits of IUG membership; this is our opportunity to address any of those issues, big or small, that we would like to see improved.

Enhancements provide suggestions to Innovative. So we have to keep in mind that:

  • Depending upon system architecture issues and the amount of work that implementing an enhancement might take, it is not always possible to incorporate all of the top vote-getters into the next release.
  • IUG enhancement requests are assigned a higher priority than general enhancement suggestions, but there are no guarantees that a specific enhancement will be implemented.

Historically, many of IUG suggestions have been incorporated into the software. IUG’s input to Innovative is highly valued. The number of enhancements on the ballot and number of “top vote getters” for each category will be determined proportionally by the number of submissions in each category.

Please Keep in mind that the Ohio State University Libraries will submit it’s vote as an institution by tallying and prioritizing the top vote-getters in each category submitted by head of that Functional Area.

2013-2014 Enhancements Schedule

All requests submitted through December 6, 2013 will be part of the 2013-2014 Enhancements cycle.

Here is the full schedule for this season:

  • Friday, December 6, 2013 5:00pm (Pacific Time) – Deadline for enhancement submissions
  • Wednesday, March 5, 2014 – Final ballot published on IUG website and IUG voting starts
  • Friday, April 4, 2014 5:00pm (Pacific Time) – IUG voting ends – FIRM DEADLINE
  • Ballot results are posted to IUG website and sent to III by the Enhancements Co-coordinators within two weeks of end of voting.

2013-2014 Enhancements Categories

Enhancement categories that apply to OSUL’s Innovative Interfaces, Inc. products and services include:

  • Acquisitions
  • Cataloging, Database Maintenance & Authority Control
  • Circulation
  • Create Lists & Reporting
  • INN-Reach
  • Serials
  • Systems Functionality
  • WebOPAC

Enhancement Ballots were shared with appropriate department heads on Friday, March 7th, 2014 with the deadline set to receive their feedback by Friday, March 28th, 2014.